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December 8, 2011austrian economics, bounded rationality, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive ecology, cognitive science, cognitive systems, Colin McGinn, collective intentionality, collective knowledge, complex adaptive systems, complexity, connectionism, cybernetics, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Economics, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, emergence, enactivism, epistemic systems, epistemology, evolutionary psychology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, freedom, individualism, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, self organizing systems, self-referentiality, self-synchronizing systems, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, social epistemology, social networking, social ontology, social psychology, socialism, sociocognition, sociology, spontaneous order, spontaneous orders

Hayek and the “Use of Knowledge in Society”

Here is a draft of my entry for the SAGE Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences. Hayekuse of knowledge in society

June 7, 2011alvin goldman, collective intentionality, epistemics, epistemology, group minds, hayek, jennifer lackey, Marx, philosophy of science, social cognition, social constructivism, social epistemology, social facts, sociocognition, sociology, sokal hoax

Goldman and Lackey on Social Epistemology on Philosophy TV

Here are two of the biggest names in analytical SE discussing the area on Philosophy TV. Another opportunity to plug the journal with which they are associated – EPISTEME.

October 13, 2010Boundaries of the Mind, Bounds of Cognition, cognition, cognitive science, cognitive systems, consciousness, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, enactivism, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, individual, mind spread, philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, robert wilson, social psychology, sociobiology, sociology

Rob Wilson – Mind Spread

Tune into the live stream of Rob Wilson’s keynote talk at the ARPA. Rob is of course the author of the excellent Boundaries of the Mind.

September 26, 2010aggregation, cognitive science, cognitive systems, collective intentionality, consciousness, institutions, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, social constructivism, social epistemology, social facts, social ontology, sociocognition, sociology

Searle’s Latest

Here’s a review of Searle’s Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization.

August 1, 2010complexity, Michael Szella, multi-agent modeling, network theory, networks, Renaud Lambiotte, social connectionism, social networking, sociology, Stefan Thurner

Social Networking Study

Here are the results of a fascinating social networking study.

July 27, 2010Edward Said, Ernest Gellner, Isaiah Berlin, liberty, London School of Economics, nationalism, oakeshott, philosophy, philosophy of social science, political philosophy, social constructivism, social epistemology, sociology

Ernest Gellner

Here is a review of an intellectual biography of Ernest Gellner.

April 22, 2010computational psychology, multi-agent modeling, network theory, networks, neurophilosophy, psychology, robert west, ron sun, social cognition, social connectionism, social epistemology, social ontology, sociology

Cambridge Handbook of Computational Psychology

Here’s a review by Robert West of Ron Sun’s (Ed.) book that has been very useful to me (I mean that I have already been using the book): Rob West’s review will better articulate the book’s virtues. (Reference books are notoriously difficult to review – a job admirably well done by Rob West). Abstract: Computational…